Generalist
Talent Acquisition Partner
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo). Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will design and scale the hiring engine by creating talent strategies and mapping candidate ecosystems. You will partner with technical leaders to manage end-to-end searches and optimize recruiting methodologies.
What you will do
- Manage end-to-end search ownership including intake, strategy, sourcing, screening, loop design, and closing.
- Perform proactive talent mapping to identify prospective candidates.
- Conduct targeted sourcing using publications, conferences, repositories, and referral networks.
- Leverage AI tools for research, enrichment, and workflow enhancement.
- Track pipeline conversion and channel effectiveness to guide team decisions.
- Collaborate with hiring managers on role scoping, calibration, and interview loops.
- Engage and close candidates by articulating the mission and technical scope.
- Maintain data and structured interviewing practices within Ashby.
- Manage external agencies to supplement internal sourcing.
- Support in-person hiring efforts across San Francisco and Boston locations.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years full-cycle technical recruiting
- Track record of closing senior technical hires with competing offers
- Real passive-sourcing depth
- Data fluency including ATS reporting and spreadsheet use
- Working, current use of AI tooling in workflow
- Exceptional written communication
- Genuine technical curiosity
- Strong relationship management under pressure
- Based in San Francisco or Boston, in person
Nice to have
- Hiring for a frontier research organization or AI lab
- Robotics, autonomous vehicles, or hardware experience
- Experience as an early or founding recruiter
- Ashby, or fluency in a comparable structured-interview ATS
- Agency or search-firm training early in career
- Familiarity with both the Bay Area and Boston markets
About the company
Generalist is on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world. The team includes researchers and roboticists from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, and Google DeepMind.